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Please support our fight for smaller classes — and a better education for our kids — in 2012! | Class Size Matters Please support our fight for smaller classes — and a better education for our kids — in 2012!
classsizematters.org - December 2011 Dear supporter, In the past year, some of the richest and most powerful men in America – including Bill Gates, Arne Duncan and Michael Bloomberg – have come out in favor of increasing...
Confidential Student and Teacher Data to Be Provided to Limited Corporation
huffingtonpost.com - This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the NY Board of Regents approved the state's sharing of student and teacher information with a new national database, to be funded by the Gates Fou...
10 Years of Assessing Students With Scientific Exactitude
nytimes.com - In the last decade, we have emerged from the Education Stone Age. No longer must we rely on primitive tools like teachers and principals to assess children’s academic progress. Thanks to the best e...
Old school, new school | SILive.com
silive.com - Even though the city Department of Education’s plan to close PS 14 in Stapleton is proceeding, students, parents, teachers and other supporters of the embattled neighborhood school are not giving u...
10 Years of Assessing Students With Scientific Exactitude
nytimes.com - In the last decade, we have emerged from the Education Stone Age. No longer must we rely on primitive tools like teachers and principals to assess children’s academic progress. Thanks to the best e...
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LAUSD's New Charter Moratorium Gives Teachers More Power
huffingtonpost.com - LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Unified teachers have approved a new labor agreement with the school district that will give teachers wide-ranging decision-making power in running their schools.United T...
If Charter Schools Don't Perform That Well, Why Build More? - Gapers Block Mechanics
gapersblock.com - By Monica ReidaOn Monday Chicago Public School (CPS) officials announced that 12 new charter schools are proposed for the next two years. This would add more schools to the already established Nobl...
Arne’s poor poll results. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - My little “fire the fool” poll on Arne Duncan basically shows that readers of this blog don’t think highly of the Education Secretary. No surprise there. I received some comments that I took as bei...
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'I Come From Public Housing' [UPDATED]
huffingtonpost.com - Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) told hundreds of Florida A&M University students marching at the governor's mansion, protesting his decision to call for the suspension of the president of the state's l...
Newt Gingrich Would Send A U.S. Marshal To Arrest A Disagreeable Judge
thinkprogress.org - Continuing his crusade against the courts, Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich railed against judges “imposing secularism” on the country on this morning’s Face The Nation. Arguing that...
Crippling the Right to Organize
nytimes.com - Stanford, Calif. UNLESS something changes in Washington, American workers will, on New Year’s Day, effectively lose their right to be represented by a union. Two of the five seats on th...
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Me and Bank of America. « Fred Klonsky
preaprez.wordpress.com - I did it! This morning Bank of America stock price dropped to $5 a share. It’s what they call the danger zone. A month or so ago I decided I would support the movement to pull my money out of Bank ...
Support PURE! » Parents! Need help with special education problems?
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Parents United for Responsible Education » Blog Archive » Parents! Need help with special education problems?: Parents! Need help with special education problems? by admin PURE’s ...
Confessions of a Partially Proficient Parent: Holiday break
ednewsparent.org - So, today is our first day of break. My 9-year-old daughter is already glued to the iPad, but at least she’s using a creative application to make a cool drawing. We’ve survived three holiday partie...
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Broke Chester Upland asks state for $18.7M advance (With Video)
m.delcotimes.com - CHESTER — Chester Upland School District officials made a public appeal Thursday asking Gov. Tom Corbett for $18.7 million to ensure the district meets its payroll beyond December.Chester Upland of...
Money talks, twice | Feature
chicagoreader.com - click to enlarge A year ago, Miguel del Valle was running for mayor. His resume was outstanding. He'd risen from blue-collar roots on Chicago's near-northwest side to the state senate, where he was...
Don't Blink. The DC Machine Is Killing Medicare Right Before Our Eyes
ourfuture.org - This last week we've seen how Washington's elites are able to suppress popular opinion, work against the public interest, and wrap it all up with a bow so that it looks like 'democracy in action.' ...
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Council Mandates City Alerts on PCB Dangers – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Dec. 19, 2011, 5:39 p.m. The City Council voted on Monday to require the city to notify parents when toxic chemicals are discovered in the fluorescent light fixtures illuminating many of the classr...
Peru’s Vice President Inaugurates a Coffee Processing Plant in Canchaque « Small Farmers. Big Change.
smallfarmersbigchange.coop - December 18, 2011 by Phyllis Robinson Press Release Marisol Espinoza Cruz, Vice President, Peru and Santiago Paz, Co-Manager, CEPICAFE Coffee Co-op More than 233 families from Coyona, in the Cancha...
National Coalition for History » Blog Archive » Fiscal Year ’12 Funding Bill Ready for House and Senate Action (updated)
historycoalition.org - This is an update of our December 15 story about the introduction in the House of Representatives of an omnibus spending bill for fiscal year (FY) 2012. The legislation would fund the federal gover...
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International Rockstar Legend Jon Bon Jovi dead at 49 « dailynewbloginternational
dailynewbloginternational.wordpress.com - Rockstar Jon Bon Jovi (John Francis Bongiovi, Jr) was pronounced dead today after paramedics found him in a coma at his Empress Hotel, city and law enforcement of Asbury Park, NJ sources told The T...
'I'm in the Right Place,' Common Tells Eagle Academy Boys – SchoolBook
nytimes.com - Dec. 19, 2011, 4:02 p.m. Last year, David Banks, who founded The Eagle Academy for Young Men, an all-boys public high school in the South Bronx, moderated a panel on education reform at Lincoln Cen...
Kids Are Heroes - Lily's Heroes
kidsareheroes.org - Jordan Brown is a WWII buff and has embarked upon a campaign to ensure that the WWII vets who served on D-Day are memorialized. In May 2010, he learned of an effort to honor Jordan’s hero, Major D...
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A Closer Look at Charter Practices | Edwize
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - A Closer Look at Charter Practices | Edwize: A Closer Look at Charter Practices by Christina Collins Will Dobbie and Roland Fryer’s new study of 35 New York City charter schools a...
Teachers For Social Justice: Call President Obama to Veto Indefinite Detentions Without a Trial
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Teachers For Social Justice: Call President Obama to Veto Indefinite Detentions Without a Trial: Call President Obama to Veto Indefinite Detentions Without a Trial by sarah-ji (Th...
In Case You Missed It: Poorer Districts Could Get More Money; Success Network Gets Its Cobble Hill School; Just 1-in-3 NYers Think Walcott Gets It, Period « EdVox
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - In Case You Missed It: Poorer Districts Could Get More Money; Success Network Gets Its Cobble Hill School; Just 1-in-3 NYers Think Walcott Gets It, Period « EdVox: In Case You Missed It: Poorer Di...
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Occupy Des Moines Protesters Take Over Obama HQ, Iowa Democratic Party HQ
news.firedoglake.com - A unique pressure campaign has been playing out in Iowa, where the group Occupy Des Moines and other progressive groups briefly took over both the Obama for America and the Iowa Democratic Party he...
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die... (Inspiring words from Charlie Chaplin)
occupywallst.org - I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my ...
Today's Big Education Ape - PostRank Top Mid Day Posts #ows #edreform
bigeducationape.blogspot.com - New York City Student Testing Over the Past Decade - NYTimes.com #edreform Big Education Ape - PostRank (PostRank: All) - 3 minutes ago New York City Student Testing Over the Past Decade - NYTim...
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